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mistressofmuses) wrote2024-12-26 08:12 pm
Habit Tracking: Week 51 (December 15 - December 21)
Pine tree and pine cone for this week. Though my brown pen started to die. (Not out of ink, just not working.)
This week was stressful. We were dealing with the issue with the truck, my mom told me about her melanoma, found out my grandmother had covid, our heat still being out in the apartment, the holidays still coming up... Every day required doing something. I did a lot of holiday prep, and it did pay off in terms of feeling fairly ready for Christmas, but it did mean other things tended to fall behind. Especially writing. I did at least get quite a bit of reading done, and will probably actually hit my goal for the year! The week also felt very long. Emotionally I felt like I was anticipating a break or a chance to have some time off, but I don't actually have that, ha.
Goals for the week:
- We did get the truck brakes replaced
- I wrapped gifts
- I... sort of wrote a little bit once
- I still haven't set up that phone
- I did not clean my table
- I did not put my laundry away
- I did water my plants
- We did not get a response to the maintenance request for the heat
- I did send out holiday cards
- I did go get stocking-stuffer stuff for Alex
Tracked habits:
- Work - 5/7
- Household Maintenance - 6/7
- Physical Activity - 1/7
- Wrote 500/1000+ Words - 0/7, but with one day of less than 500 words
- Wrote on 2nd+ Draft - 0/7
- Meta Work - 1/7
- Personal Writing - 7/7
- Other Creative Things - 3/7
- Reading - 7/7 - I read quite a bit of Witch King, a little bit of The Infernal City with Alex, finished an ebook novella and a short story, then read another pretty mediocre ebook novella
- Attention to Media - 7/7 - Basically the whole week we had The Office on for background, finishing it on Saturday; Tuesday there was stormchasing on for a while as well; Thursday we half-watched the Broncos squander a first-half lead; Saturday I also listened to music for a while.
- Video Games - 0/7
- Social Interaction - 5/7
Total words written: 414 on planning the hypothetical holiday fic
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That sounds like you got a lot done! And obviously the most important thing was to keep the plants alive, so you get extra credit for that. I'm amazed that you managed to write with everything else that needed to be done. Particularly the soul-sucking misery that is writing the Christmas cards. Extra credit for that too!
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Every year I promise that I will get the holiday cards out ahead of time, and every year I am lying. I don't even have all that many I do, though I should make an effort to add some more friends to the list. But stiiiiiill, it feels like it takes forever!
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I used to think that wrapping and card writing were equivalent in levels of badness, but now I wrap with fabric wrap that just requires knotting together - no folding, no sticky-tape, and the wrapping has become lots easier. The cards are definitely the worst thing now.
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Cards... it's nice to have them done, and that's about the best part of the whole process, haha.
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We wrap with fabric for anyone who we are going to be physically with when they unwrap them - so we can take the wrap back and re-use it.
(Once or twice we've also posted stuff to be unwrapped at the other end, but in those cases we wrapped the presents in nice scarves and handkerchiefs that the person at the other end could have as another present.)
One of the nice bonuses of this is that our presents now all look like a Chinese Imperial warlord has sent them, which is a bonus.
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I've done that as gifter and giftee a few times, where a fancy scarf or something is the wrapping, so it's an extra gift in itself. Always lovely!